Developing Flexible Dual Master's Degree Programs at UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla) and OSU (Oklahoma State University)

Autor/inn/en	Fabregas-Janeiro, Maria G.; de la Parra, Pablo Nuno
Titel	Developing Flexible Dual Master's Degree Programs at UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla) and OSU (Oklahoma State University)
Quelle	(2012), S.223-238 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1548-6613
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Masters Programs; International Programs; Dual Enrollment; Land Grant Universities; Private Colleges; Intercollegiate Cooperation; Program Development; College Curriculum; Mexico; Oklahoma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Doppelstudium; Privathochschule; Hochschulkooperation; Programmplanung; Mexiko
Abstract	In 2006, UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla) and OSU (Oklahoma State University) signed a MOU (memorandum of understanding) to develop more than 20 dual master's degree programs. This special partnership has allowed students from Mexico and the United States to study two master degree programs, in two languages, in two countries and in approximately two years. Five years ago, both higher education institutions realize that allowing students to travel between two countries could develop intercultural competences to work efficiently in international environments. We understood the need to develop intercultural competences in our students. They key of this successful agreements what the option to transfer up to 50% of the total credits of the master programs from one university to the other. After the signing of the general, the different colleges from both institutions were invited to participate in the design of each dual master degree. Each college in each university of UPAEP and OSU analyzed with their contra part, the academic requirements in the different master programs, as well as the required and the elective courses. After a deep analysis of the curricula, each institution decided which courses the students should take at each institution (as the core/required courses) and the courses that were allowed to transfer as well as the ones to take at the host institution. The addendums to the initial general MOU dual master's degree programs which include the course matching were signed by each one of the deans of the different schools and colleges involved in the process. Twenty-five different dual master's degree programs were developed and launched at once six years ago between both universities in Mexico and the United States. There is a special consideration in the design of the programs at each institution that facilitates the success of the negotiation of the dual master's degree programs between UPAEP and OSU. Those considerations are the innovativeness, flexibility and interdisciplinary of their curricula, which allowed the deans of the schools and colleges to select the courses that the students should take at the home institutions and the courses the students should take at the host institution. (Contains 1 table. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10